ramping up
Building up momentum
Ramping up means gradually increasing intensity, scale, or activity.
Production ramps up before the holiday season.
A company ramps up hiring.
Military forces ramp up operations.
The phrase suggests a slope—steady acceleration rather than sudden change: We're ramping up our marketing efforts ahead of the launch.
The noun ramp-up describes this process of escalation.
- intensifyingIncreasing in strength
- acceleratingIncreasing in speed
- heighteningIncreasing in degree
- gearing upPreparing for something ahead
- turning up the heatIntensifying pressure or conflict
picking up speed · expansion · scaling · quickening · momentum · full steam ahead · redoubling · deepening · propulsion · equipping · proliferation · surge · flywheel · boosting · progressive overload · turbocharging · increasing · maximizing
- growthgrowth, grow, growing, growth rate, increase
- accelerationaccelerate, acceleration, accelerating, speed up, speeding up
- amplifyingboosting, magnifying, intensifying, heightening, strengthening
- intensificationamplification, escalation, heightening, intensification, magnification
- Pacing Strategiesslow start, even pace, rhythm, cadence, steady state
- consequencesconsequence, consequences, result, results, effect
ramping upwinding down
Gradually decreasing toward conclusion
scaling back · tapering off · dialing back · slowing down · phasing out
ramping upshutting down
Ending operation or activity
winding up · phasing out · scaling down · downsizing · cutting back
ramping uptapering
Progressive decrease in width
declining · de-escalating · decelerating · plateauing · stagnating